the best horses are dead horses
see, you read that as a joke, but if i write it like this:
suddenly it seems sincere.
in other words, grammatically, screenshotting is
Ok but consider:
Now itâs a joke again.
hmm. what about
well, one must also consider,
ooo good one! different implications. you can push them a bit further with, like,
hhhmmmmmmm,,
see, that oneâs interesting, because it technically implies that this is a quote of another quote, right? thereâs an implication added from its previous recontextualization. like, contrast that with this:
which could be seen as more ambiguous
I see no reason to limit ourselves to new media. Anything stated on a plaque implies the statement has met or exceeded the minimum level of importance required to warrant a plaque. If the plaque is on the side of a building or bridge, it implies the statement achieves at least the level of importance required for it to be on a plaque on the side of a building or bridge.Â
see, like, this is edging into meme captions at this point. like the next thing in this sequence would probably be
and then you end up with text pasted over pictures everyone recognizes, and then after that itâs all political cartoons.
my interest was more the incidental associations added through the theoreticaly neutral act of screenshotting stuff from a given (or even the same) media platform
also repeating this phrase, but the reason for that should be obvious
although arguablyâŚ
iâd guess part of the reason the tumblr example feels different to the other examples is that it raises the question of, âwhy didnât you just reblog?â which we understand is usually itâs because itâs being held up for mockery and you donât want that going back to the OP - screenshotting is an act of excluding them from the conversation.
conversely, posting images from other social media sites usually (not always) feels like it could be a recommendation - depending on the âstatusâ of the site. twitter is p neutral, so thereâs kind of two possibilities: either itâs someone youâre unlikely to have heard of, in which case youâre probably praising their tweet (usually to say itâs a good joke), or itâs a famous person saying something in which case it reflects on their character somehow.
(also this is âas weâd receive it on tumblrâ, but tangentially iâve seen a weird thing in that regard where a twitter user posted a screenshot of a tweet that theyâd copied from a tumblr post lol)
reddit, it kinda depends in the same way, though i think reddit users are collectively generally held in less regard so itâs probably a case of âlook at what this idiot on reddit saidâ.
pornhub (I think thatâs what the orange one is?) is held in even less regard, so much so that âlook at what this idiot on pornhub saidâ is rarely worth pointing out, so it kind of wraps back round to the point of âif itâs worth screenshotting, itâs probably actually goodâ.
i donât actually know what that blue one is. i thought maybe metafilter or something, but it didnât look like that when i checked.
bash.org is a joke repository so thatâs definitely gonna be presented as âcheck out this good jokeâ.
fb messenger is necessarily more or less anonymous - so the person sending the message might stand in as a âstock characterâ, such as âmy mumâ.
blurry photo is something else entirely. not sure what that conveysâŚâŚâŚâŚ
thank you, internet linguistics side of tumblrÂ


















